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[โ€“] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Totally understand and to be honest I wish we had that here (Dystopian States of America). People deserve the dignity of spending time relaxing and with their families. It was just a culture shock for me the first time, and now I know to plan better when I'm in Europe. But. yeah the idea that things should be closed or prohibited so that "you'll go to church more" is obviously idiotic. Where I live, Alcohol sales were banned on Sunday even though everything else was open. They changed the rule recently, but only if a bar/restaurant/retailer specifically gets a "Sunday sales" license (apart from the other one for the rest of the week) and they can't sell until after noon; ostensibly because of course everybody should be in church before then. Stupid-ass Bible Belt eyeroll

[โ€“] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 11 hours ago

When I lived in Poland everything was still open on Sunday and when I moved to Spain everything was suddenly closed and I had 0 issues adapting. I'm sure it's an issue when traveling but once you make that mental switch it's super easy to plan around it. I remember having discussion on reddit later and people form Poland coming up with the craziest reason why they need the stores to be open on Sunday (like "I'm disabled so I drop food all the time and what I'm supposed to do when I drop my last food on the floor and it's Sunday?"... IDK, buy more food on Saturday?)